scrimmage
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However, he amassed 50 touchdowns and nearly 5,000 yards from scrimmage, while passing for 3,812 yards and 40 touchdowns and rushing for 1,134 yards and 10 touchdowns.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 13, 2026
Carson, the defending City Section Open Division champion, will have five mandatory days of acclimation, then hold an intrasquad scrimmage on Saturday.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 26, 2026
In fact, Pochettino should treat that game like a glorified scrimmage, a rare chance in the middle of a tournament to experiment and hammer home finer points of strategy.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 20, 2026
The Super Bowl marked Walker's third straight playoff game with 100-plus scrimmage yards, making him the only player in Seahawks history to accomplish that feat.
From Barron's ● Feb. 9, 2026
And then the quarterback, Brill, showed up with a football, and you know we had to get a scrimmage going right there in the hallway.
From "Crash" by Jerry Spinelli
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He and a couple acquaintances from Harvard organized scrimmages for other local college players at a complex outside of Worcester, Mass.
From The Wall Street Journal ● May 21, 2026
Then came the Americans, who often acted as if they would have been content to slog through meaningless scrimmages in half-empty spring-training stadiums.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 18, 2026
Among scrimmages taking place include Thursday matchups of Santa Margarita at Chaminade and Birmingham at Bishop Amat and on Friday, Norco is hosting St. John Bosco.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 12, 2024
Players who are in the sit-out period for transferring without moving are allowed to play in scrimmages because it is considered a practice.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 12, 2024
After PE, where Coach put me and Jenna on separate basketball courts for scrimmages, Jenna took off for her after-school newspaper meeting and I headed to the library to study with Audrey.
From "Keep It Together, Keiko Carter" by Debbi Michiko Florence
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While his peers scrimmaged against players in their own grade, the young Kon Knueppel spent his evenings taking a crash course in basketball nitty-gritty from guys two or three times his age.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 8, 2026
While teammates scrimmaged, she studied sets from the sidelines.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 17, 2025
Warriors: Curry, the reigning NBA Finals MVP, is increasing his workload and scrimmaged earlier in the day with Golden State’s two-way players and backups.
From Washington Times ● Mar. 1, 2023
Carroll and Gonzaga scrimmaged the past two seasons, but this fall both teams had an open slot to begin the year.
From Washington Post ● Aug. 26, 2022
After the last set of drills, they scrimmaged full-court.
From "Millionaires for the Month" by Stacey McAnulty
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“Let’s get the coaches on the side and let’s start getting into more scrimmaging and stuff like that.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 10, 2025
Curry could return as soon as Sunday after scrimmaging for a third straight day.
From Washington Times ● Mar. 3, 2023
Afterward, Thompson remained on the bench for more than 20 minutes — acknowledging earlier in the week after resuming full-court scrimmaging that this has been a taxing rehab grind after back-to-back serious injuries.
From Fox News ● Nov. 27, 2021
Here are some other observations from UW’s eighth fall practice, which included the most legitimate scrimmaging thus far.
From Seattle Times ● Aug. 14, 2021
“Right. They had that video, you and me scrimmaging, when you made that ridiculously shallow lob and I caught you at the net.”
From "Burning Blue" by Paul Griffin
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